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Ask Soylent: Turn Based Space Themed Strategy War Games?

posted by n1 on Saturday July 12 2014, @02:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the new-empires-to-conquer dept.

buswolley writes:

I am a fan of turn-based, multi-player strategy space-themed war games. I am not a fan of real-time games mostly because I ike to mull my decisions, and it is difficult to get everyone together at the same time.

Currently I play the aging, but still great Space Empires IV. This game has some great features including being very mod-able, and great depth and variety of game play). There are some other old but great space-themed, turned-based strategy games (e.g. Master of Orion), but most of these either had no multi-player, or required everyone to be playing on the same computer.

Anyone on Soylent play a great turn-based strategy games which is space-themed, of which I might not be aware?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Jaruzel on Sunday July 13 2014, @03:59PM

    by Jaruzel (812) on Sunday July 13 2014, @03:59PM (#68560) Homepage Journal

    There's a compiled copy of Trek73 for Android on the Google Play store:

    Droid Trek [google.com]

    I've just downloaded it - it seems to have some quirks, but *is* playable.

    -Jar

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  • (Score: 2) by jackb_guppy on Sunday July 13 2014, @04:32PM

    by jackb_guppy (3560) on Sunday July 13 2014, @04:32PM (#68569)

    That appears to be StarTrader/StarWar. You travel from quadrant to quadrant to find and destroy the bad guys.

    Trek73 you start out under attack with up to 9 ships attacking you. Best approach is find the attacking ship opposite of the largest hole in between the attaching ships and "attack"/pursue that ship at warp -9. So your strongest shield is in front of the oncoming on-slot. Then launch torpedoes has land mines for the the other ship to fly through. Watch those fuel reserves and regeneration rates! Since engines take power, torpedoes toss power "overboard".

    • (Score: 2) by Jaruzel on Sunday July 13 2014, @10:14PM

      by Jaruzel (812) on Sunday July 13 2014, @10:14PM (#68665) Homepage Journal

      Ahhh OK. it looked the same in the screenshots. I'll keep looking for a phone version...

      -Jar.

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